Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

Re:Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an M... by cebu on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:14PM (#34536016)

Currently building with Next/TRPC/Prisma/PG and would choose it again. I might be a little slower than starting with a full-featured MVC kit like Laravel or Rails, but having an e2e type system is so worth it to me. I do miss having a more mature ORM.

I'm constantly tempted by Phoenix but desuaded by the lack of a type system. Does elixir somehow make up for the lack of types as a functional language? Also, I can reuse a good deal from my current stack in a react-native app for mobile, which I'd miss out on in another framework.

Wish I could say Flutter, but have not been impressed by the web experience.

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Re:Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an M... by karmajunkie on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:29PM (#34536299)

There's a component called dialyzer that can help detect type issues, but i wouldn't say its nearly as useful as having real types in a language. That said, I've never found it to be much of an issue in Elixir, and the advantages you get with BEAM are worth it. There's a newer language called Gleam that does have a strong type system you may want to investigate, as it runs on BEAM (like Elixir and Erlang) and can use libraries and applications from both in its apps.

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